[OOC] Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt

[Krinos Solstice]

@LadyRunic Completely understandable. I wouldn't mind if we moved to a new thread and continued where we are with our current active players, though I'm sure we would need to find two(Not sure on that...) new Rulers, unless our current group intends to make the new Rulers? In either case, I think a new thread with our active players would be a good idea. I know my posting frequency hasn't been so great, and I apologize for that, but I'm still very much interested and invested in continuing.

[LadyRunic]

@Krinos Solstice I think I may speak to a admin and ask him to delete the inactive characters. And your trying at least, you haven't up and ditched the thread without a word so no biggy. As for rulers. I would need dedicated players who wouldn't run off into the sunset. Rulers are suppose to drive the Rp, which is why we've been moving so slowly.

[BlackPanther]

@LadyRunic
Yea I believe we only have 2 active
Summer and fall

[Lady Seraphina]

Hello?

I'd be willing to take over Winter or Spring depending on what's needed more urgently.

[Belle]

@Prince of Seraphs

Do you have any plans as to what you want to happen now? I don't want to mess anything up and also I am kind of drawing a blank as to what exactly to do with Jessalyn now. Are they going to Raven's home or to the Spring Court?

[Lady Seraphina]

@Prince of Seraphs

Do you have any plans as to what you want to happen now? I don't want to mess anything up and also I am kind of drawing a blank as to what exactly to do with Jessalyn now. Are they going to Raven's home or to the Spring Court?

@Belle

I don't have extremely definite plans.

From here they're going to have Raven and Jessalyn cut through a swath of forest called the Borogoves (see Lewis Caroll's Jabberwocky). I figure they'll have some special trickery to them, possibly something along the lines of "The Legend of Zelda"'s Lost Wood.

After that they're going to Raven's home. They'll spend the night there then in the morning or a day or two from now she'll take Jessalyn to one of the Seelie Courts after teaching her enough know how to survive and try to pass her off to one of the rulers, thinking that royal pets have a level of safety Raven can't provide.

[BlackPanther]

@Krinos Solstice
I believe you are up to reply if you can

[LadyRunic]

Guys, I'll start posting again as soon as I get back from the convention I'm going too. Between getting ready, and calming a distraught cat. Not to mention my normal crap.

Anime... You must obey the call.

[Lady Seraphina]

And then stuff happened.

[Lady Seraphina]

Then stuff ceased happening.

[Lady Seraphina]

So are we going in for a reboot then?

[BlackPanther]

I have no idea but I would love to see something happen....
Really love this rp and my character

[LadyRunic]

@Prince of Seraphs@BlackPanther I'll be rebooting soon. But it will be a few days. IRL issues that I really don't want to speak about.

[LadyRunic]

Guys I'm so sorry but I'm not going to be posting to this for quite a while. I WILL restart it if you want me to. But when I have my head on straight. If you want to know why I'm stepping back, PM me. But I never step back from Rps and I am only doing this because I love this Rp so much. If I do this, I'll do this RIGHT. But, Gods above, I just can't do it right now, IRL issues.

[BlackPanther]

@LadyRunic
i would love a restart when you are able.
i won't pry or poke at you about IRL issues just let me know when the restart is up :)

[LadyRunic]

@BlackPanther@Prince of Seraphs@Belle@Krinos Solstice

Thanks for the time. To sum things up, a three year relationship with my partner ended. Though to better news, I would like to make you Co-GMs if you are willing to take a Fae Throne.

My Rps are generally free formatted which is there biggest downfall from what I can see. I can't be everything and do everything for the Rper so I expect people- in this case Fae Rulers= to take a chunk of that for themselves. If you all are up for it= Panther I know you have summer, I can manage fall. That leaves... Winter? Spring?

Which is Why I'm going to restart this so people don't run away from the size of it. Everything that has happened has happened. So I won't delete this one so we can reference.

But do you have any ideas on how to get people in and to stay in the RP? We can have action, I didn't make this Rp only for the political battle of words. Assassinations, duels, skirmishes... Their not uncommon (Save in Fall). And war could break out if two Courts angered each other enough.

[Lady Seraphina]

I'd be willing to take over spring as long as I don't have to use Natsu's Spring Queen.

I think the reason that people ducked out is cause really they're lazy. I had a freeform style RP a bit like this one but with demons and it fell apart because of those involved only two people were actually down with writing events into the RP. Everyone else just wanted me, the GM, to drop plot bombs for their character to react to it.

I see only two ways to fix that, having some sort of screening process for those wanting to apply. Those that are only kind of interested won't bother, those that really are interested will jump through hoops for it.

The other option would be to restart this in the Advanced category where presumably the writers are a little more experienced and mature.

[LadyRunic]

@Prince of Seraphs Problem with advance is it's so... Out there. Even I won't go into it because I don't think I can write enough reliably. Thus I'd rather stay in casual.

[BlackPanther]

@LadyRunic
I'd be willing

I'm attached to my character :3

As for ideas to make them stay....I really don't know I've experienced the problem quite a bit

[Lady Seraphina]

@Prince of Seraphs Problem with advance is it's so... Out there. Even I won't go into it because I don't think I can write enough reliably. Thus I'd rather stay in casual.

@LadyRunic

That's a reason I don't go there. I think I'm fully capable of performing as Advanced requests but I don't want to be required to do that well all of the time. It takes a fair bit of time and energy. In casual if I have the time and energy to spend I can crank out an Advanced level post. If not no one is going to yell at me for doing a little less.

As far as making people stay... Really I think that it's about attracting people that are sincerely interested from those people that see the Original Post think "this might be fun" then decide it's too much work. The best way to do that I would say is to make it more difficult to get accepted. Put something in the Original Post about 'acceptance not guaranteed' or 'acceptance dependent on quality of Character Sheet' Perhaps make them include a sample post to test there style of writing. If people believe they are being heavily scrutinized when applying those that are joining just for the hell of it and will probably leave in a couple weeks won't bother because it's too much of a hassle while those that really wish to be here will perform better in order to get accepted.

Another way to go would be to make the Character Sheets more inclusive. Add categories unique to this RP that require some serious thought. Anyone will dash out a basic character sheet based on categories more or less universal to to Roleplaying but if they look at the form see something they are not used to dealing with and there first thought is "I'm gonna have to think about this one" those that don't really care will move on while those that really want to be here will put some effort into it.

Lastly I think we lost a number of people because they were uncertain of their actions. This is supposed to be a more freeroam style RP where the plot is driven by the actions of the characters. It's comparable to an open world video game where you don't have one set story path you must follow. The difficulty with that kind of game is that a programmer must anticipate any action a player might choose to take and plan how the game will respond. They have to design settings, NPCs, general rules, that kind of thing. I think you left things just a little too freeform. The RPers didn't have enough established (for lack of a better term) 'Overworld' to work with. Have you ever read the novel Coraline or watched the movie adaptation? In the other world outside the house and grounds the world is entirely white and blank. Coraline walks in a straight line away from the house and comes back on it again and comments that it must be a small world indeed for her to be able to walk all the way around it in such a short time.

At the moment the Fae Courts look a bit like that. Blank and formless. We know for sure that the courts are more or less populated by forests, each one a little different depending on the season it embodies and we have a rough description of each of the palaces from the various rulers before they dropped out but we don't have anything more concrete than that. I've tried to take what liberties I could but even I'm a little in the dark and no one wants to make anything too drastic like an entire city for fear that it might be out of line with what you (the GM) have in mind. Are there cities in the four courts? What are they like? Is there more than one or does each court just a have a capital? What does infrastructure look like? Are there roads running through the forest? Are they stone paved roads or just paths worn into the ground from millennium of travel? Are the cities made with stone buildings like a medieval city or sung out of the trees like some fae depictions?

I took some more extreme liberties with how the courts borders are guarded by establishing a barrier between the four courts that is only crossable at certain predetermined gates except by using the blood of the Tuatha but prior to that it could have been simply that one season bled into the next and no one patrolled the area.

I've done my best to use popular Welsh mythology to fill in the gaps but there is very little literature that deals specifically with what Faerie is like. Most of it deals with specific fairies and there actions in the mortal realm. If we are going to Roleplay in the world of the Fae we need some idea as to what that world is actually like. Maybe if you put some basic information about what each of the courts is like and perhaps some common destinations for the rulers to work with that would help immensely.

I think I went off on a bit of a tangent there at the end but that's my two cents. Take of it what you will.